Hey, everyone, why don’t you quit smacking your food and close your mouths while you eat. Anything else is utterly revolting and will [...]

In keeping with the traditional end-of-the-year wrap-up, Merriam-Webster Online http://www.merriamwebster.com/info/05words.htm (a tool used pretty frequently by yours truly), has recently released the top [...]

As someone who writes a fair amount of computer code, it was with some trepidation that I cast my early vote in the [...]

President Bush and other leading Republicans are bending over backwards to paint lobbyist Jack Abramoff as being entangled with both political parties. This [...]

I’ve been mostly vegetarian for over eight years, and I say “mostly” because I do occasionally enjoy fish. Anyway, I don’t complain very [...]

• Eating noodles at midnight is customary at Buddhist temples in Japan. • A German/Pennsylvania Dutch tradition is to eat pork and sauerkraut [...]

In its Saturday, Dec. 17, issue, the Albuquerque Journal ran a disturbing front-page article with an accompanying photo that was even more disturbing. [...]

I know I watch too much late-night network television, but damn, I can’t resist back-to-back episodes of “The Outer Limits” and “The Twilight [...]

The Rio Grande Zoo has a new little bundle of joy. An African elephant named Nadirah, which means precious and rare in Swahili. [...]

Last Friday's (Dec. 16) Albuquerque Journal provided a lengthy and well-written cover story on Amtrak's ghetto-boy status in Albuquerque by Journal staff writer [...]